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Android

Posted by Kevin Ley
Kevin Ley
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How to add a calendar event automatically w/o user action

I wan't to schedule calendar events with an alarm in android without the user having to press 'ok' or otherwise. Ideally this would all happen in the background when triggered by a listener event.

Code I am using right now

''' mSetCalendar.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v){ Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSERT); intent.setType("vnd.android.cursor.item/event"); intent.putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.TITLE, "Learn Android"); intent.putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.EVENT_LOCATION, "Home suit home"); intent.putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.DESCRIPTION, "Download Examples");''' // Setting dates GregorianCalendar calDate = new GregorianCalendar(2015, 10, 06); intent.putExtra(CalendarContract.EXTRA_EVENT_BEGIN_TIME, calDate.getTimeInMillis()); intent.putExtra(CalendarContract.EXTRA_EVENT_END_TIME, calDate.getTimeInMillis()); //Configuring Alarm intent.putExtra(CalendarContract.CalendarAlerts.HAS_ALARM, "hasAlarm"); // make it a full day event intent.putExtra(CalendarContract.EXTRA_EVENT_ALL_DAY, true); // make it a recurring Event intent.putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.RRULE, "FREQ=WEEKLY;COUNT=11;WKST=SU;BYDAY=TU,TH"); // Making it private and shown as busy intent.putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.ACCESS_LEVEL, CalendarContract.Events.ACCESS_PRIVATE); intent.putExtra(CalendarContract.Events.AVAILABILITY, CalendarContract.Events.AVAILABILITY_BUSY); startActivity(intent); } }); mLocationProvider = new LocationProvider(this, this); mLocationProvider.connect(); Log.d(TAG, "lati" + mCurrentLatitude); //Forcast.io API Setup Ends getForecast(); Log.d(TAG, "Main UI code is running!");. '''

While this add events to the without typing it still pops up a screen that the user has to agree with before it is added to the calander.

Thanks!! Any advice will be a huge help!